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Unifying Innovations in Forecasting Capabilities Workshop 2026
Join us this July at the College Park Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in College Park, Maryland or online for the Unifying Innovations in Forecasting Capabilities Workshop 2026 (UIFCW26).
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The Unified Forecast System

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Unified Forecast System

Innovation through community

What

A suite of unified Earth system models developed by the science community to better predict weather and climate. The UFS aims to simplify NOAA’s operational suite from 21 standalone forecast systems to 8.

Why

We can’t control the weather, but we need to be able to predict and adapt to it. The UFS harnesses the power of community to build next generation operational weather prediction systems.

Partners

The UFS partners with government, academia, innovators, scientists, developers, and industry.

NOAA supports the UFS in partnership with the research and development community.

UFS & EPIC

The Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) is a NOAA-led program that fuels the UFS via user support, hands-on training, and community engagement.

Initiatives

  • Modeling applications spanning local to global scales and sub hourly to seasonal predictions
  • Configurable Infrastructure
  • Community Webinars
  • Research-to-Operations and Operations-to-Research thrusts
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Recent Webinars and Publications

WINGS in Flight: Accelerating Weather Innovation through Machine Learning

Presenters: Elena Fernandez, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Albany; Lucas Howard, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Colorado Boulder
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From Planetary-Scale to Eddy-Scale: Advances from the NOAA Research Global-Nest Initiative

Lucas Harris (GFDL); Linjiong Zhou (Princeton University)
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UFS Coastal and Applications: A brief history, current status and the path forward

Saeed Moghimi (NOAA)
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The Origin, Structure, and Tracks of the Monsoon Onset Vortex – Integrating Theory and Predictability Studies using the UFS for early season impacts on the Monsoon

Mr. Shreyas Dhavale
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The state of the UFS July 2024

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Integration of MPAS Dycore into UFS

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The First Annual UFS Physics Workshop White Paper: Summary and Key Conclusions

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Prediction of extreme events in precipitation and temperature over CONUS during boreal summer in the UFS coupled model

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Sources of subseasonal predictability over CONUS during Boreal Summer

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